Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas is chipping away at the fossilized remains of the prehistoric marine reptile.

Mike Trask died on May 15, eight days before the publication of the peer-reviewed findings in the Journal of Systematic ...

This primitive, 85-million-year-old marine reptile was a fierce predator, measuring 12 meters in length. Unlike any known ...

The marine reptile, which could grow to around 39 feet (12 meters ... was formally described by scientists in 2002 and dates back to between 86 and 83 million years ago. Other fossils found in the ...

The 36 well-preserved cervical vertebrae and 50 neck bones indicate that Traskasaura had a very long neck. While not much is ...

A landowner in Argentina’s Neuquén province reported the discovery ... safely recover the fossil, which was later identified as belonging to an ichthyosaur—a marine reptile that lived during ...

A rare fossil discovery in Antarctica has upended scientific understanding of ancient marine reptiles. Buried beneath 68 million years of sediment, a soft-shelled egg as big as a football has ...

The 15-ton elasmosaur adds to evidence that a vibrant marine ecosystem existed ... and it is now one of the most complete ancient reptile fossils ever discovered in Antarctica.